Turkan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Turkan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Azerbaijan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Koruyucu, muhafız.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 963(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 93K
- DEGermany≈1 in 298K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Azerbaijan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 963 (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Türkan in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Koruyucu, muhafız.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turkan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | #275 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 963 | 161 | Turkan | 35 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 93K | #99 | Turkan | 66 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 73 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 25 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 298K | — | Türkan | 48 |
| DK Denmark | — | 151 | 1 in 39K | 151 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 145 | 1 in 70K | 145 | Turkan | 17 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Turkan | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Turkan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, accusative singular of turka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, se décarcasser
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Türkân Örs Baştuğb. 1900TRTurkish statesperson (1900–1975)
- Türkan Radob. 1915TRTurkish jurist (1915–2007)
- Türkan Akyolb. 1928TRTurkish physician and statesperson (1928–2017)
- Türkan Saylanb. 1935TRTurkish physician and writer (1935–2009)
- Türkân Şorayb. 1945TRTurkish actor (born 1945)
- Türkan Dağoğlub. 1945TRTurkish statesperson (born 1945)
- Lale Yavaşb. 1978CHnot in their usual nameTurkish-Swiss actor (born 1978)
- Türkan Erişmişb. 1984TRTurkish middle-distance runner (born 1984)
- Turkan Mamedyarovab. 1989AZAzerbaijani chess player
- Türkân AyanTRTurkish psychologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #68,830 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Turkan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Koruyucu, muhafız.
- Is Turkan a male or female name?
- Turkan is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Turkan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Turkan in Azerbaijan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turkan.
- How common is the name Turkan?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 151 people named Turkan, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Turkan compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Turkan is the 275th most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turkanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Turkan” — the 275th most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.